Drapery hook



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Application filed September 28, 1922. Serial No. 590,018.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, James W. MoGmin, a citizen of the UnitedStates,'resid1ng at Los Angeles, in the county of 'Los Angeles and Stateof California,-have invented new and useful Improvements in DraperyHooks, of which the following is a s ecification.

My invention relates to. rapery hooks, particularly adapted to bedetachably secured adjacent the upper edge of a drapery and to engageover a rod, in order that the drapery may be properly hung in place at awindow or other opening; and is designed as an improvement on the hookshown and patent entitled Drape hooks, bearing umber 15263,

grants to me J an. 10th, 1922.

The hook described in the above mentioned patent, although veryeflicient, has not proven entirely satisfactory, inasmuch as the shearexposed points on the hook end frequent y pricks the. fingers of theperson handling the dra ry, and cansin damage to the fabrics by ecomingentang ed therein; moreover'the time consumed in threading the hookthrough the fabric is objectionable. It is the ob ect of my presentinvention to provide a hook for the purpose above described, which willovercome the above reco cited dificulties and which will be simple,

durable, efficient and inexpensive of manufactnre, endwhich may beeasily and quickly adjusted to the drapery material.

Another object of my invention is to proat vide a hook which whensecured in position will become yieldingly locked to the draperymaterial, thus-guarding a' ainst its becoming accidentally displaced teretrom.

The above and other objects of my invenco tion will he more fullydisclosed in the following specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a back view of the top so of a fragment of drapery showing thevarious cs stages of the application of my. proved hook thereto.

Fig. 2 is a section through the same, taken on the line 2-2 of F 1viewed in thd direction indicated by t e arrows.

In carrying out my -invention the hook is formed t medi hard andpreferably spring wire, bent to form the U shaped hook 5 having the arch6 adapted toengage over a curtain rod, the-hook end 7, and the shank.portion 8. The wire at the end of the shank 8 is sobent as to form anarm 9 which extends upwardly along the outer edge of the shank andterminates adjacent the arch 6, the bend at the junction of shank 8 andarm v9 forms a spring loop 10 and: the end of arm 9 is sharpened to apoint 11, said point extending slightly beyond the junction between thes ank 8 and the arch 6 as clearly shown in the drawings. The end of thearm I '9 just below the point 11 is adapted to normally rest against theshank 8 as" shown at 12.

The top portion of a drapery is shown at I 13 which comprises a fabricwhich is folded upon itselt and hemmed at 14 to form the adjacentparallel walls 15 and 16, the wall 15 constitutinw the body of thedrapery.

In Fig. 1 o the drawings the hook designated by the letter A is shown ina osition ready to be inserted into the fabric. 5- tilting the hookslightly sidewiseit will be ob vious that the fabric wall 16 may bepierced by the point 11 of arm 9 and the hook pressed upward into thefabric as shown at B, the arm 9 restin between the walls 15 and 16 andthe wal 16 being impin ed between the arm 9 and shank 8, t us holdingthe hook yieldingly locked in position to the fabric and thoroughlyconcealing v the a 9 from view. The hook may then be readily turned toassume the position sho at G and then conveniently placed over thecurtain rod.

By the above recited construction it will be apparent that the mainweight of the drapery will be supported by the. loops 10 of the hooksand that the hemmed portion will be held upwardly by reason of beingilnpinged between the she 8 and arm 9.

it will be observed that when the hooks are secured in. position on thedraperies, that the pointed ends 11 of arm 9 are concealed between thefolds-of fabric, and consequently all danger of thehooks becomingentangled.

in the viated.

What I claim A dra cry hook, formed of a single piece of w entintermediate of its ends'into abric after attacent thereto is obv 5upwardly from the loop disposed along the day of Sept. 1922.

f3 Mmeee substantiall U shaped formation 'to proarch, the extreme end ofthe arm being vide an arch, a hook end and a shank p01,- 'pointed. tion,the end of the shank portion being bent In witness that I claim theforegoing I to form a spring loop, and an arm extending have hereuntosubscribed my'name this 12th outer edge of said shank and terminatingadjacent the junction between the shank and JAMES MCGHEE.

